Chief of Staff

Responsibilities

• Spearhead strategic partnerships with leading academic medical centers, research institutions, and industry partners across the Greater Boston area and beyond.
• Own senior relationships with principal investigators, technology transfer offices, and program leadership — building the trust that makes ambitious collaborations possible.
• Represent the Institute in inter-institutional meetings and keep the operational rhythm of collaborations steady across partners.
• Advance licensing initiatives from first conversation through executed agreement; draft, review, and analyze contracts and term sheets with judgment about what actually matters.
• Career development and advancement opportunities within the senior leadership team.

Requirements

• Background Technical degree in biochemistry, molecular biology, biological engineering, chemistry, or a related life science.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• Working understanding of proteomics mass-spectrometry-based methods expected; exposure to single-cell or low-input proteomics is a strong plus.
• Prior experience in a non-profit, academic, or academic-adjacent setting (university lab, foundation, NIH-funded center, research institute, tech transfer, translational center).
• Ranged from tactical to strategic comfortable moving between a term sheet and an operational calendar in the same day.
• Track record of managing multi-stakeholder relationships with senior scientific and academic leaders.

Skills

• Mission-driven — genuinely energized by what proteomics is beginning to make possible.
• Highly organized and efficient able to hold multiple concurrent workstreams without losing precision.
• Optimistic and can-do comfortable in a high-agency environment where breadth is the point.
• Willing to be onsite daily in Watertown, MA, with limited hybrid flexibility.

Benefits

Compensation & benefits: $150,000-$200,000 base commensurate with experience, plus medical, dental, and vision coverage through a PPO plan, parental leave, generous PTO and paid holidays, and a wellness allowance.

A seat on the senior leadership team working directly with the Founding Director and the Institute's scientific and operational leadership.

Access to state-of-the-art instrumentation — high-sensitivity, high-resolution mass spectrometry and cell-handling platforms — under one roof.

Open-science culture where your name and work are front and center on the research you help drive, alongside a collaborative, multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians.

Proximity to the frontier of single-cell proteomics — inside a mission-driven, open-science research institute where scientific ambition and public benefit are the same thing.